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Businessman Kaufman will be released on bail in 155 million hryvnias
The High Anticorruption Court refused to extend the arrest of businessman Borys Kaufman and changed his preventive measure to bail in the amount of 155 million hryvnias with obligations within the case of embezzlement of the municipal enterprise International Airport Odessa and misappropriation of 2,5 billion hryvnias of income from its activity. The decision 26 October was made by investigative judge of VACC Yaroslav Shkodin.
As is known, the anticorruption court arrested Kaufman with an alternative of 268,4 million hryvnias bail. NABU and SAP were asking to extend the arrest of the suspect. However, judge Shkodin decided to release Kaufman from custody.
Kaufman was subjected to the following obligations: to appear on first demand; not to leave Odesa without permission; to inform about any change of residence; personally or through other persons to refrain from communication with suspects, as well as with witnesses, and to surrender foreign passports for safekeeping. Prosecutor of SAP petitioned the Appellate Chamber of VAKS against this decision.
As a reminder, NABU and SAP announced suspicions against businessmen Borys Kaufman and Alex Bodurovich (Granovsky), as well as the former mayor of Odesa Oleksiy Kostusyev and his former deputy. According to the investigation, in 2011 year a group of persons, including the former Odesa mayor, his deputy, the head of one LLC, and two businessmen, developed and implemented a criminal scheme, as a result of which the property complex of a strategic facility – the international airport – passed from municipal ownership to joint ownership of the city and so-called private investors.
As a result of further actions by participants in the scheme, the city completely lost any control over the object and did not receive any profit from its operation for years. Instead, the individuals who gained control over the airport appropriated the income from its activity for years. To prevent returning the airport to city ownership, all its property was mortgaged to a bank to obtain a loan, which was never repaid.
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